Peter MacKay and Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay are expecting their first baby. Afshin-Jam, a human-rights activist is also well known for her stunning looks having been Miss World Canada and Miss World first runner-up. Although her new husband is known more for his politics than his looks, he is considered one of Canada's most handsome politicians. Nazanin Afshin-Jam and Defence Minister Peter MacKay at Hope Live, held Tuesday, November 15, 2011, at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre.Caroline Phillips
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam, shown on January 10, 20, while working to have an Iranian teen's death sentence overturned.Bill Keay
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam, shown on January 10, 20, while working to have an Iranian teen's death sentence overturned.Bill Keay
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam, shown on January 10, 20, while working to have an Iranian teen's death sentence overturned.Bill Keay
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam poses for photographer in Vancouver December 28, 2010. Nazanin Afshin-Jam has devoted her life to protecting children and women from human rights abuses, especially in her native Iran.Arlen Redekop
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam poses for photographer in Vancouver December 28, 2010. Nazanin Afshin-Jam has devoted her life to protecting children and women from human rights abuses, especially in her native Iran.Arlen Redekop
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam poses for photographer in Vancouver December 28, 2010. Nazanin Afshin-Jam has devoted her life to protecting children and women from human rights abuses, especially in her native Iran.Arlen Redekop
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Vancouver, Oct. 6, 2006 Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a Persian exotic beauty who was crowned Miss World Canada and 1st runner up in the global competition. Photo Credit:Robert Kenny
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Vancouver, May 10, 2007 MOTHER'S DAY Nazanin Afshin-Jam (right) and her mother, Jaleh.Handout
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VANCOUVER, B.C.- MARCH 31, 2009-Azita and Ahmad Reza Shafaghat arrive at YVR Tuesday, March 31, at Vancouver, B.C., and are greeted by Nazanin Afshin-Jam (dark haired lady). The couple fled Iran after converting from Islam to Christianity and were stalled in Turkey. For story by Doug Ward. (SSteve Bosch
/ Vancouver Sun

Nazanin Afshin-Jam, former Miss World Canada pageant winner, worked to have an Iranian teen's death sentence overturnedBill Keay
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Vancouver, Oct. 6, 2006 Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a Persian exotic beauty who was crowned Miss World Canada and 1st runner up in the global competition.Chris Haylett
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam, a Canadian beauty queen and human rights champion, has devoted her life to protecting children and women from human rights abuses, especially in her native Iran.Arlen Redekop
/ Vancouver Sun

Nazanin Afshin-Jam is President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions. here holding photographs of youths who could be executed.Mark Van Manen
/ Vancouver Sun

Nazanin Afshin-Jam is President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions. Nazanin, a former Miss World, is also taking aim at the United States, which has one of the worst records in terms of child executions.Mark Van Manen
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NAZANIN
AFSHIN-JAM
Iranian-Canadian human rights activist, beauty queen
A former Miss World Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam is co-founder and president of Stop Child Executions, which aims to end the execution of minors in Iran and abroad, and in 2008 was appointed to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation’s board of directors. Her “Save Nazanin” petition in 2005 garnered 350,000 signatures, saving the life of 18-year-old Iranian Nazanin Fatehi, who’d been sentenced to death for stabbing to death a man who allegedly tried to rape her.Vancouver Sun
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Defence Minister Peter MacKay and his wife Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay are expecting their first child together, due in spring 2013.

The federal cabinet minister, 46, made the announcement on his Facebook page at roughly 9:30 a.m. Friday morning.

FacebookPeter MacKay's message on Facebook

“Last night, Nazanin and I announced to a group of friends our happy news that the MacKay family is growing,” he wrote.

“We are expecting our first child this spring. I am excited by the prospects of raising a child with my loving wife, along with the support of family and friends in the greatest country on earth.”

The two were married in Mexico in January.

Afshin-Jam MacKay, 34, was in the news in July when she criticized a P.E.I newspaper for distorting her opinions on the continued detainment of Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay, and for referring to her only as “Peter MacKay’s wife.”

She is calling for the immediate return of Khadr, the lone Canadian in the foreign prison.

A former Miss World Canada and Vancouver resident, Afshin-Jam MacKay is also a human rights activist and author.

MacKay came under fire in the House of Commons this year over the bungled procurement of 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets.

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